Faculty Directory
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Executive and Continuing Education programs are taught by esteemed Harvard faculty and industry experts in health care and related fields.
Harvard Chan Executive and Continuing Education Faculty
Dr. Skyler Place is a world expert in behavior change and leverages this perspective to help Fortune 100 clients unlock the power of artificial intelligence to improve outcomes for their businesses, customers, and employees. He has guided the world's largest consumer brands, healthcare providers, and telecommunication companies to bring emotionally intelligent artificial intelligence into their business operations. He has authored 8 patents and over a dozen publications at the intersection of machine learning, health, and communication. He served for over a decade as the Chief Behavioral Science Officer at Cogito, a Boston-based emotion AI company. In addition, Dr. Place is…
John M. Price, PhD, CIH, CSP is an Instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Northeastern University Department of Chemical Engineering. He was previously the Director of Environmental Health and Safety at Northeastern University where he supervised staff in assessing worker exposure, conducted training in occupational health and safety, and designed engineering controls for the workplace. He also provided oversight for compliance with environmental regulations.
Andrew Principe is a veteran clinical application specialist with ten years of experience working with Electronic Medical Records, e-Prescribing, Practice Management, and Laboratory Information Systems. Andrew spent 5 years as Associate Director of Clinical Applications at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, MA. Under Andrew's leadership, Joslin achieved a successful EMR implementation that supports the organization's clinical, financial, and research goals. For the past 4 years, Andrew has worked as a consultant with Arcadia Solutions where he has helped various healthcare provider organizations adopt and utilize EMR and other clinical applications.
Ms. Puhy joined her first public board – Reebok – in 2001. Over the course of the next 20 years, she served on 2 additional public boards, Eaton Vance (an investment management firm) and Abiomed (a medical device company). Her board service for each of these public companies ended when each was acquired in very favorable transactions.She served on the board of two major companies that are structured as non-profits – Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and the Controlled Risk Insurance Company (CRICO) which is the captive professional liability insurance company of the Harvard related hospitals and physician groups.…
Giuseppe (Bepi) Raviola, M.D., M.P.H., is Director of Mental Health for Partners In Health, Associate Director of the Chester M. Pierce M.D. Division of Global Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Director of the Program in Global Mental Health and Social Change at Harvard Medical School. His work sits at the intersection of Psychiatry, Global Health, and Social Medicine, to promote the development of innovative models of delivery of mental healthcare to people living in the economically poorest communities in the world, and to show evidence for these advances. Over two decades of working in global health delivery Dr. Raviola…
Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH)Dr. Reede has a passion for mentoring diverse individuals in the biosciences. Her duties include development and management of a comprehensive program that provides leadership, guidance, and support to promote the increased recruitment, retention, and advancement of diverse students, trainees and faculty. Dr. Reede graduated from Brown University, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, HSPH and Boston University. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a fellow of the American Association for…
Early on in my education, I designed my training to pursue a career as a clinician-scientist. I graduated in Psychology in 2005 from University of Minho. In 2007, I completed a specialization in clinical psychology, and in 2011 I finished my Ph.D. degree in Clinical Psychology at the same university. After my Ph.D., I was invited to an Assistant Professor position at the University of Minho. After being awarded a post-doctoral fellowship by FCT, I undertook additional Post-Doctoral training in the US, at Northeastern University(September 2013 to July 2014) and at Harvard Medical School from August 2014 to December 2016.In…
Steve P. Rizzo, President and Co-Founder of Synergy Consultants, Inc. has had a diverse career in facility engineering. He attended Northeastern University College of Engineering where he received his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering and is now a registered professional engineer as well as an ASHRAE Certified Commissioning Process Management Professional.Steve has over thirty years of experience with firms including R.G. Vanderweil, J.C. Higgins Company, and Bard, Rao, and Athanas Consulting Engineers, where he was the department head of the building commissioning group for four years. Other positions that deepened his expertise were Chief Facilities Engineer for the Faneuil…
Lisa A. Robinson is the Deputy Director of the Center for Health Decision Science and a Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she is also affiliated with the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. Her research focuses on the conduct of benefit‐cost analysis, particularly for policies with outcomes that cannot be fully valued using market measures. She has contributed to numerous guidance documents, most recently leading the teams that developed guidelines now used by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Her work also involves developing…